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I can only assume that the line you're taking here is a cowardly emotional hedge.
I don't really know or care about Punk at this point, but Bryan winning the title at Mania is pretty obviously at least possible. Taking the extreme stance that it's impossible isn't enlightened; hope that helps.
fwiw, I also don't understand how so many people have viewed the past ~6 months and come to the conclusion that Daniel Bryan is winning the title at Mania without it being in large part to just wanting it to be the case. It seems like every time someone produces an opinion ending with "Bryan wins at mania", its rationale involves beliefs that the powers that be couldn't possibly ignore the crowd being so pro-Bryan nor be willing to stick with their proposed main event of Orton vs Batista due to fear of crowd response.
It's not as if the crowd has just suddenly become massively pro-Bryan. It's been the case for the previous 6 months as well. What they've done with that is:
- Use Bryan's popularity to springboard a HHH/Orton heel turn at Mania (despite HHH being confused since then on whether he's supposed to be a heel or not)
- Have a series of PPV main events where they don't give an ending (and then blame the poor buyrates on Bryan if those reports are to be believed).
- Rush Cena back from injury and immediately put him back in the main title picture (which leads me to believe the reports are at least somewhat accurate)
- Use Bryan's popularity to establish Bray Wyatt as a credible heel to face Cena (going over Bryan entirely clean with no rematch)
- Keep Daniel Bryan out of the Royal Rumble in an effort to not have the crowd boo when he's eliminated.
- Have Daniel Bryan challenge HHH to a match at mania
So when I look at all that and then see people talking about pulling double duty at WM and winning the title, I just kind of shake my head. Of course he
should be in the title match. But I just don't see it happening based on anything they've done.